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Microsoft has an excellent article on white space: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx
TinyXML-2 preserves white space in a (hopefully) sane way that is almost complient with the
By default, TinyXML-2 preserves white space in a (hopefully) sane way that is almost complient with the
spec.(TinyXML-1 used a completely outdated model.)
As a first step, all newlines / carriage-returns / line-feeds are normalized to a
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<document><data>1</data><data>2</data><data>3</data></document>
#### Whitespace Collapse
For some applications, it is preferable to collapse whitespace. TinyXML-2
supports this with the 'whitespace' parameter to the XMLDocument constructor.
(The default is to preserve whitespace, as described above.)
However, you may also use COLLAPSE_WHITESPACE, which will:
* Remove leading and trailing whitespace
* Convert newlines and line-feeds into a space character
* Collapse a run of any number of space characters into a single space character
This can be useful for text documents stored in XML.
Note that (currently) there is a performance impact for using COLLAPSE_WHITESPACE.
It essentially causes the XML to be parsed twice.
### Entities
TinyXML-2 recognizes the pre-defined "character entities", meaning special